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Es gibt unglaublich viel Lektüre über #Demenz, viele Beratungsstellen in Pflegestützpunkten, Selbsthilfekontaktstellen, hauptamtliche wie auch ehrenamtliche Unterstützung durch ganze Selbsthilfevereine genau zu diesem Thema (Demenz, #alzheimer etc.).

Umgang mit Demenz kann geschult werden, gerade auch für pflegende An- und Zugehörige.

You'd think #Alzheimer's is a "politically benign" topic but MAGA fascists spread malignancy. We're fighting AD & the research to cure it. "Thousands of grants, inc. many @ public universities & on topics as politically benign as AD, have been caught in what critics say is an unprecedented slowdown of the American research system that is threatening to upend universities & halt progress toward medical innovations, treatments & cures." PS: why "critics say"? It's a fact.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · One of the country’s leading Alzheimer’s projects is in jeopardyBy Evan Bush

MAGA as pro-#dementia: "Gone are ~$10 million in remaining money for a project that inc. 28 clinical & research sites across the country & 1700 participants w/mild cognitive impairments. 'We don’t have the ability to predict who’s going to get worse b/c we won’t be able to see them,' said DeCarli, who’s also co-director of the #Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at #UCDavis. His project also had the goal of placing these participants in treatment & prevention trials.

calmatters.org/education/highe

CalMatters · He spent decades researching dementia. Trump’s DEI purge killed his grant, and dozens moreThe Trump administration has terminated at least 30 health research grants at UC campuses as it targets DEI.

The "prodromal" phase of #Alzheimer's can last 15-20 years; that is, the brain is being invaded -- slowly -- before clinical presentations appear (for example, word-finding; memory; spatial disorientation). Check out this explanation of a new blood test whose predictive accuracy seems extraordinary. @erictopol also discusses the benefits of intervening early and addressing #modifiableriskfactors .

Thank you @cobalt for directing me to this article.

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-b

Ground Truths · The Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer's DiseaseBy Eric Topol

Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.

"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."

salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-

#USPol
#Misogyny

Salon.com · MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices

Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.

"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."

salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-

#USPol
#Misogyny

Salon.com · MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices

As the #NIH slashes funding for research into #Alzheimer's, #cancer, #COVID & #diseases that inflict pain & suffering, I'm heartbroken & furious. #Early-onset Alzheimer's took my father away from me &, more importantly, himself. Why would anyone in their right mind (right, the mind of the #fascist is almost incomprehensible) do such a thing? If nothing else, a selfish viewpt. says this is idiocy. These cuts are meant to bring us to our knees. Let's resist (& sue them into oblivion).